South Africa and the Transvaal War
Author: Louis Creswicke
Publisher:
Published: 1900
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13:
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The Boer War
Author: Thomas Pakenham
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781841880143
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published by Weidenfeld and Nicholson in 1979, an illustrated narrative of the Boer War, written by the author of SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
London to Ladysmith Via Pretoria
Author: Winston L. S. Churchill
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 1411672038
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA personal record of Winston Churchill's adventures and impressions during the first five months of the Boer War. It incldes an account of the Relief of Ladysmith, and also the story of Churchills capture, and dramatic escape from the Boers.
Four Months Besieged
Author: Henry H. S. Pearse
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-08-01
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Four Months Besieged" (The Story of Ladysmith) by Henry H. S. Pearse. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The Great Boer War
Author: Byron Farwell
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Published: 2009-09-19
Total Pages: 920
ISBN-13: 1783830611
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of the battle for independence from the British Empire in South Africa by “a vivid chronicler of military forces, generals, and wars” (Kirkus Reviews). The Great Boer War (1899-1902), more properly known as the Great Anglo-Boer War, was one of the last romantic wars, pitting a sturdy, stubborn pioneer people fighting to establish the independence of their tiny nation against the British Empire at its peak of power and self-confidence. It was fought in the barren vastness of the South African veldt, and it produced in almost equal measure extraordinary feats of personal heroism, unbelievable examples of folly and stupidity, and many incidents of humor and tragedy. Byron Farwell traces the war’s origins; the slow mounting of the British efforts to overthrow the Afrikaners; the bungling and bickering of the British command; the remarkable series of bloody battles that almost consistently ended in victory for the Boers over the much more numerous British forces; political developments in London and Pretoria; the sieges of Ladysmith, Mafeking and Kimberley; the concentration camps into which Boer families were herded; and the exhausting guerrilla warfare of the last few years when the Boer armies were finally driven from the field. The Great Boer War is a definitive history of a dramatic conflict by the author of Queen Victoria’s Little Wars, “a leading popular military historian” (Publishers Weekly).
A Ghost and His Gold
Author: Roberta Eaton Cheadle
Publisher: Tsl Publications
Published: 2020-11-27
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9781913294946
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter Tom and Michelle Cleveland move into their recently built, modern townhouse, their housewarming party is disrupted when a drunken game with an Ouija board goes wrong and summonses a sinister poltergeist, Estelle, who died in 1904. Estelle makes her presence known in a series of terrifying events, culminating in her attacking Tom in his sleep with a knife. But, Estelle isn't alone. Who are the shadows lurking in the background - one in an old-fashioned slouch hat and the other, a soldier, carrying a rifle? After discovering their house has been built on the site of one of the original farms in Irene, Michelle becomes convinced that the answer to her horrifying visions lie in the past. She must unravel the stories of the three phantoms' lives, and the circumstances surrounding their untimely deaths during the Second Anglo Boer War, in order to understand how they are tied together and why they are trapped in the world of ghosts between life and death. As the reasons behind Estelle's malevolent behaviour towards Tom unfold, Michelle's marriage comes under severe pressure and both their lives are threatened.
A History of the Twentieth Century
Author: Martin Gilbert
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2002-12-17
Total Pages: 836
ISBN-13: 9780060505943
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMartin Gilbert, author of the multivolume biography of Winston Churchill and other brilliant works of history, chronicles world events year by year, from the dawn of aviation to the flourishing technology age, taking us through World War I to the inauguration of Franklin Roosevelt as president of the United States and Hider as chancellor of Germany. He continues on to document wars in South Africa, China, Ethiopia, Spain, Korea, Vietnam, and Bosnia, as well as apartheid, the arms race, the moon landing, and the beginnings of the computer age, while interspersing the influence of art, literature, music, and religion throughout this vivid work. A rich, textured look at war, celebration, suffering, life, death, and renewal in the century gone by, this volume is nothing less than extraordinary.
Ulysses Annotated
Author: Don Gifford
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2008-01-14
Total Pages: 700
ISBN-13: 9780520253971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRev. ed. of: Notes for Joyce: an annotation of James Joyce's Ulysses, 1974.
Churchill's South Africa
Author: Chris Schoeman
Publisher: Random House Struik
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781920545475
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn October 1899, the twenty-four-year-old Winston Churchill sailed for South Africa as war correspondent for the Morning Post to report on the Anglo-Boer War. When he returned the following year, it was as a military celebrity. This book follows Churchill's footsteps across South Africa and gives his impressions of the places he visited, the landscapes he saw, the people he encountered and the events he was involved in. Churchill's South Africa covers the future statesman's travels across the Great Karoo and through the green hills of Natal, his capture by the Boers, his escape to Del.
Empires in the Sun
Author: Lawrence James
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2017-06-06
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 1681774992
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe one hundred year history of how Europe coerced the African continent into its various empires—and the resulting story of how Africa succeeded in decolonization. In this dramatic (and often tragic) story of an era that radically changed the course of world history, Lawrence James investigates how, within one hundred years, Europeans persuaded and coerced Africa into becoming a subordinate part of the modern world. His narrative is laced with the experiences of participants and onlookers and introduces the men and women who, for better or worse, stamped their wills on Africa. The continent was a magnet for the high-minded, the adventurous, the philanthropic, the unscrupulous. Visionary pro-consuls rubbed shoulders with missionaries, explorers, soldiers, big-game hunters, entrepreneurs, and physicians. Between 1830 and 1945, Britain, France, Belgium, Germany, Portugal, Italy and the United States exported their languages, laws, culture, religions, scientific and technical knowledge and economic systems to Africa. The colonial powers imposed administrations designed to bring stability and peace to a continent that appeared to lack both. The justification for occupation was emancipation from slavery—and the common assumption that late nineteenth-century Europe was the summit of civilization. By 1945 a transformed continent was preparing to take charge of its own affairs, a process of decolonization that took a quick twenty years. This magnificent history also pauses to ask: what did not happen and why?
